<strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News Wednesday <strong>August</strong> 2 2<strong>02</strong>3 12 NEWS Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz Radio Avon back – for a day • By Tony Simons PERSONALITIES: Murray Inglis (above) and Lee Hanner (below right) preparing for the launch in July 1973. RADIO AVON, the station that shook up the Christchurch establishment and ended government-owned 3ZB’s dominance of the airwaves, will return for a brief reprise on the weekend. More than 40 of its former staff are back for a broadcast and a reunion marking 50 years since Radio Avon 1290 was launched on <strong>August</strong> 4, 1973. The first private radio station in the city, it made an immediate impact with its new mix of pop music and on-air personalities – in the mould of Radio Hauraki, which had been enjoying similar success in Auckland. Two former Avon announcers, Morry Shanahan and Kim Adamson, will be fronting a two-hour special on community station 96.9 Plains FM from 10am on Saturday. The programme will be streamed around the world, something that would never have been possible in 1973. At one time in its 17-year history, Radio Avon had 55 per cent of Christchurch people tuning in. The journey ended in 1990 when it merged with another station and was later rebranded C93FM. Many of the original onair team from 1973 are still remembered today, such as programme director Graeme Parsonage, who was widely credited for the station’s success. Others include Wayne Douglas, Mike Richardson and perhaps the best known, Murray “Muzza” Inglis, who was still broadcasting on his own suburban radio station in Auckland until he died this year, aged 80. In a famous stunt in 1977 Inglis threw a tantrum on air, apparently in an argument with management over his contract renewal. He locked himself in the studio and continued to broadcast by himself for 48 hours. At the time, very few station staff knew it was a stunt and the story made headlines around the world. Shanahan, who joined the announcing team later in 1973, remembers some of the tricks they employed to increase audiences ratings. “We used to play the records at a higher speed to create more pace,” he said. “Not enough that the audience would notice, but enough to give the station a more lively sound – 45s were played at 48rpm and LPs at 35rpm instead of 33.” Another original on-air personality was Lee Hanner, who moved into the Lyttelton Timeball Station with his family when the city council was looking for a live-in manager. After the Timeball was badly damaged in the February 22, 2011 earthquake, Hanner talked about his time there and how it fitted in perfectly with his 8pmto-midnight shift at Radio Avon. “I’d get home about one in the morning and, with moonlight over the harbour, walking up to the building felt like going back 100 years,” he said. In 1989, tragedy struck when journalist John Foy and his former de facto wife Jill Cardwell were murdered in Cardwell’s Wainoni home. Cardwell’s boyfriend was convicted of the double murder. Foy had joined Radio Avon in 1974 before leaving to become chief reporter for Independent Radio News. His estate later established an annual award for young radio journalists at the New Zealand Broadcasting School. In 1998, a radio documentary The Rise and Fall of Radio Avon was produced by NZBS radio student Richard Holstein. It can be heard at www.tinyurl.com/ radioavon AIRWAVE DRIVE: The Radio Avon launch promotion, giving away a Datsun 1200. Ferrymead A Day of Fire A Novel of Pompeii by Kate Quinn From six bestselling authors, including New York Times bestseller Kate Quinn, comes a vividly imagined novel following the lives of those in ancient Pompeii on the fateful day Mount Vesuvius erupts. Pompeii was a lively resort flourishing in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius at the height of the Roman Empire. When Vesuvius erupted in an explosion of flame and ash, the entire town would be destroyed. Some of its citizens died in the chaos, some escaped the mountain’s wrath . . . and these are their stories: A boy loses his innocence in Pompeii’s flourishing streets. An heiress dreads her wedding day, not knowing it will be swallowed by fire. An ex-legionary stakes his entire future on a gladiator bout destined never to be finished. A crippled senator welcomes death, until a tomboy on horseback comes to his rescue. A young mother faces an impossible choice for her unborn child as the ash falls. A priestess and a prostitute seek redemption and resurrection as the town is buried. Six authors bring to life overlapping stories of patricians and slaves, warriors and politicians, villains and heroes who cross each other’s paths during Pompeii’s fiery end. But who will escape, and who will be buried for eternity ENTER TO WIN THIS BOOK The Trackers by Charles Frazier The stunning new novel from the author of international million-copy bestseller Cold Mountain Hurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to the rural town of Dawes, Wyoming. Through a stroke of luck, he’s landed a New Deal assignment to create a mural representing the region for their new Post Office. A wealthy art lover named John Long and his wife Eve have agreed to host Val at their sprawling ranch. Rumors and intrigue surround the couple: Eve left behind an itinerant life riding the rails and singing in a western swing band. Long holds shady political aspirations, but was once a WWI sniper—and his right hand is a mysterious elder cowboy, a vestige of the violent old west. Val quickly finds himself entranced by their lives. One day, Eve flees home with a valuable painting in tow, and Long recruits Val to hit the road with a mission of tracking her down. Journeying from ramshackle Hoovervilles to San Francisco nightclubs to the swamps of Florida, Val’s search for Eve narrows, and he soon turns up secrets that could spark formidable changes for all of them. book release WIN THIS BOOK We have one copy of A Day of Fire to give away, courtesy of Paper Plus Ferrymead. To be in the draw, email giveaways@starmedia.kiwi with A Day of Fire in the subject line or write to Paper Plus Book Giveaway, A Day of Fire, Star Media, PO Box 1467, Christchurch 8140. To be eligible for the draw, all entries must include your name, address and contact number. Entries close Tues <strong>August</strong> 15, 2<strong>02</strong>3. 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